🚆 multiple unit ✓ in service
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TVS2000 railcars at Alsancak: B'Tian Denizcan P. Dorsam· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. TVS2000 passenger car, 2023: Styyx· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The TÜVASAŞ 2000, more commonly known as TVS2000, is a series of intercity railcars built by TÜVASAŞ for the Turkish State Railways between 1993 and 2005. They were built in order to revive TCDD's failing image in the early 1990s, for use on the Capital Express. Today they are the most common railcars in Turkey.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 33 years ago, in 1993.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 26.4 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 33 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1993
- in service from
- 1993
- status
- in service
- number built
- 321
- kind
- multiple unit
- origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- builders
- TÜVASAŞ
- operators
- TCDD Taşımacılık
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- various types of individual cars to be coupled together to form a passenger train
- length
- 26.4 m
- weight
- 48 t
- capacity
- 60 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7669662, Wikipedia: TCDD TVS2000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.